Word: iberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old commander, Juan Antonio Castro, took her out of Le Havre, France with a new loyal crew, determined to sail around the bulge of the Iberian Peninsula and through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Rightist warships vigilantly patrolled the Straits. One night last week, when land fighting on the stalemated fronts was comparatively quiet with only a minor Leftist counteroffensive in the South being waged, Commander Castro decided to run the blockade. About midnight, with lights out, the José Luis Diez passed Tangier, the internationally governed protectorate of Morocco. Off Tarifa, southern tip of Spain...
...Rightists' 177. The Rightists correctly assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain's regular Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor); F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation); the P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Party); etc., etc. Among the most colorful was the "Batallón de los Figaros," a battalion composed entirely of barbers and hairdressers which later did yeoman service. Two nights after the Rightists first rose in arms, new Leftist Premier Jose Giral opened...
...whomever belonged the glory of the victory, it was a pretty complete one. The Basque militiamen and the Asturian miners, those Iberian Celts who have been fighting each other or someone else since the first Century A. D., were digging in for a last siege in the mountains near Gijón. Gijón, a little cod-fishing port became the capital of what was left of the Leftist side of the Basque Republic-a narrow strip running 125 miles along the Bay of Biscay. In this strip there was no food, no trade. Jose Antonio de Aguirre...
...reason that government is possible at all in Catalonia is due to the extraordinary talent for compromise of Catalonia's president, excitable Luis Companys. President Companys has been in & out of jails much of his political career, has long fought for Catalan independence, speaks of Spain as "the Iberian Peninsula." His technique with his spluttering allies is to promise them everything with the greatest goodwill. This worked moderately well for many months in keeping peace in Barcelona, but did nothing at all to help the hard-pressed Leftist armies fight the war. President Companys was too busy keeping peace...
...Year is in at last, and at this festive time all the pronouncements of the clergy and of the scribes, not excluding the wise cracking of Mr. Westbrook Pegler are concentrated with considerable unanimity on the current extra-curricular activities on the Iberian peninsula. And with all the nations of the continent winning battles on the playing fields of Spain, with British battleships clearing their decks and with British statesmen expressing "concern", the Dagos are providing very sensational entertainment indeed...